The Bob Bloom Show
The Bob Bloom Show
Monthly commentary on PHP and serverless platforms.

#35 - Climbing the AI Coding Ladder

March 10, 2026 · 00:13:30

Anthropic decided that they had had enough of me for the week, and cut me off.Instead of availing myself of their entreaties to buy pay-as-you-go credits, I decided to take a break from my new custom application, for my PHP Serverless News podcas

#34 - Fueled By Passion: 15 For 29

January 1, 2026 · 00:14:55

Researching general podcasting, and the state of PHP podcasting, was a new, and eye-opening experience. My podcasts impart more inherent value to my potential Umbrella Sponsors than I assumed.

#33 - Bullish On PHP's Long Term Success

December 1, 2025 · 00:15:21

I am bullish on PHP. On its current state. On its long term success. There are substantive reasons underlying my bullishness. One reason is the four year old PHP Foundation, which is successfully fulfilling its mission to provide financial support an

#32 - Go Modules, The Net-http Package, Go Compilation

November 1, 2025 · 00:15:20

This is my third of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. In this episode, I talk about Go's first-party net-http package, Go Modules, and Go's compilation.

#31 - Threads Within A Thread: Goroutines

October 15, 2025 · 00:14:38

This is my second of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. FrankenPHP relies on goroutines, an essential feature of Go. This episode is about goroutines.

#30 - High Level Hostility, Low Level Breakthrough

October 1, 2025 · 00:21:21

This is first of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. In this episode, I talk about my resistance, and resentment, having to delve into The Low-Level Stuff. And, about ChatGPT power

#29 - Did AI Make My PHP Serverless Project Obsolete - Redux?

September 1, 2025 · 00:11:14

Seeing a video of an integrated AI code generation and deployment platform, triggered a panic attack that AI did indeed make my PHP Serverless Project obsolete. I had examined this last month, in my Update podcast this very question, and my conclusio

#28 - Threading The Process

August 1, 2025 · 00:21:00

Getting down to bedrock with the question: "what is a process?". An important ancillary question arises: "what is a thread?".

#27 - My Nova Upgrade Trashed My Custom App, And Significant Announcement About WordPress

July 1, 2025 · 00:26:50

Nova's use of Fortify did not play nicely with my custom Laravel authentication guard. My regularly scheduled life was held in abeyance for a couple of weeks while I sorted this out, refreshed my apps, and moved all my apps back to Forge from Cloudwa

#26 - Low Level PHP

June 1, 2025 · 00:17:06

I take a look at the min-trend of exploring PHP's low level roots, which are based on the language PHP is written in: C.

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